Everything comes to a head in episode 8, titled "Plan París." Colonel Alfonso Prieto and Inspector Alicia Sierra take the fall for torturing Río in a secret facility in Algeria. The Professor calls in reinforcements to help extract Lisbon from a police van delivering her to testify in court. The thieves finally manage to contain Gandía, the bodyguard who broke free and—*clutches heart*—kills Nairobi.

Working together, the thieves trick the police into sending a helicopter to evacuate Gandía to safety. Instead, Marsella flies in with Lisbon, who drops down to reunite with the thieves. But just as the gang thinks they’ve turned a corner, Alicia discovers the Professor’s hideout and holds him at gunpoint. “Check mate,” she says.

But is it really game over? While Netflix has not officially announced season 5, and many fans were under the impression that season 4 would be the last, it feels like there are too many loose ends to not come back for more. Let’s try to answer some of the season’s biggest questions.

How did Nairobi die on La Casa de Papel/Money Heist?

Season 4 of Money Heist picked up right where season 3 left off: Nairobi (Alba Flores) has just been shot on Alicia’s order, and the thieves are rushing her to safety to operate. Despite losing their feed to an outside surgeon, Tokio (Úrsula Corberó) successfully removes the bullet and a part of Nairobi’s lung to save her life. But after Gandía (José Manuel Poga) gets loose, he takes Nairobi hostage, tortures her, and in episode 6, after making it seem like he would give her over in an exchange for his freedom, he shoots her in the head. In a dreamlike state, Nairobi is reunited with other characters who have died in the series: Oslo, Moscow, and Berlín.

Fans have mixed reactions to Nairobi’s death. On one hand, they are devastated. Nairobi—real name Ágata Jimenez—wasn’t just the heart of the group of thieves, but of the whole show.

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Others, however, are upset that the show decided to kill Nairobi after the thieves were able to save her life. (Creator Àlex Pina has suggested the possibility of series spinoffs, one of which could be about Nairobi.) There was a brief pause between Nairobi’s exchange and Gandía’s fatal shot; why didn’t the other thieves act?

“Imagine getting shot in the chest, in the hand and tied up to a door...only to end up dying from a bullet to her head,” one fan said on Reddit. “The end [of] her character is so cruel to me.”

Whatever the reason, her death is now motivation for the team to finish what they started. “Por Nairobi,” they all shout in the finale. “For Nairobi.”

Will the Professor die after being discovered by Alicia?

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Alicia (played by Najwa Nimri) is a wild card. After Colonel Luis Tamayo asks her to take the fall for leaked emails coordinating Río’s torture, she decides to expose the truth and bring her colleagues down with her. The police issue a warrant for her arrest, but before they can find her, Alicia has figured out her fellow officer, Antoñanzas, is a mole for the thieves.

Using security tapes from Antoñanzas's apartment, she's able to piece together the Professor's location. As he tries to run, Alicia shoots her gun and the two are facing off as the finale ends. Does this mean he will die? Or will Alicia use him to negotiate her own investigation? Or, in a plot twist, will she choose to switch sides, just like Lisbon did in season 2?

While some fans would like to see her join the Professor and his misfit group of thieves as a way to get seek her own revenge, others think it’s more likely she’ll use the Professor to clear her name.

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Is it still possible Berlín’s wife, Tatiana, is connected to Alicia?

Two major theories for season 4 of La Casa de Papel/Money Heist were that Tatiana (Diana Gómez) was going to return in a big way, and one of those ways was that she would actually turn out to be Inspector Alicia. But the most we see of Tatiana in season 4 is in a flashback of her wedding to Berlín (Pedro Alonso) in episode 2.

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However, some fans are still convinced that there is a connection between these two characters. After all, Tatiana knew both plans to rob the Royal Mint and Bank of Spain, and a handful of the flashbacks in season 4 are focused on her relationship with Berlín. It feels off to some fans that she would be referenced so much and not make a return in present day.

And if we really want to spin theories, there are a couple of details that feel like they could be easter eggs: For one, Alicia’s husband’s name, Germán, is awfully close to Berlín (though Berlín's real name is Andres de Fonollosa). And as the credits for the season 4 finale roll, you can hear a cover of "Bella Ciao," the Italian resistance song that's become an unofficial anthem for the thieves—and it's the actress who plays Alicia singing it.

It's definitely far-fetched, but if Marsella can get a military helicopter off the black market, anything is possible.

What will Julia do to Arturo next?

This season introduced a new member of the thieves, a trans woman named Julia, a.k.a Manila (Belén Cuesta), who is Moscow's goddaughter. She’s planted as a spy among the hostages, and in the finale, she shoots Arturo in the leg both to keep him from leading an ill-advised resistance among the hostages, but mostly for sexually assaulting a bank employee named Amanda.

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As the Bank of Spain's governor tells Arturo, it's a flesh wound and he will likely live—but fans are confused about his role at this point. It’s not clear how Arturo’s rape allegation is meant to move the series forward in any way, and it feels especially unfair that a toxic character like his should survive while a beloved character like Nairobi dies.

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And have we seen the last of Gandía?

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As Marsella is dropping Lisbon onto the roof of the Bank of Spain, Gandía tries to break free of the thieves holding him back. However, Bogotá (Hovik Keuchkerian) ends up knocking Gandia's head on the railing and punching him unconscious. We don't see his body after that, so it could be that he's dead or that's he's just knocked out and, potentially, a key way for the thieves to escape with the gold.

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